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View usage for: (boʊgəs) adjectiveIf you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine. ...their bogus insurance claim. He said these figures were bogus and totally inaccurate. Synonyms: fake, false, artificial, forged More Synonyms of bogus (ˈbəʊɡəs) adjectivespurious or counterfeit; not genuine a bogus note Derived forms bogusly (ˈbogusly) adverb bogusness (ˈbogusness) noun Word origin C19: from bogus apparatus for making counterfeit money; perhaps related to bogey1bogus in American English (ˈboʊgəs) Word origin orig. (slang), counterfeiter's apparatus: < ? Examples of 'bogus' in a sentencebogus They lure people to bogus websites where they enter their card details.But the claims are totally bogus.First it was bogus colleges.Meanwhile, the decline in student numbers over the past six years is largely due to the closure of more than 900 bogus colleges.But you are redirected to a bogus website.It is hoped they will also cut bogus compensation claims.Gang members submit bogus invoices for damage and sometimes treatment for personal injury to insurance companies.Illegal migrants and bogus asylum seekers poured in.An email that directs the recipient to a bogus website.The designation was introduced to weed out bogus colleges set up solely to sponsor economic migrants.The journalists set up a bogus lobbying company and offered to pay the three in return for access to government.Scouting seminars in hotels are a popular rip-off tactic used by bogus agencies.Thousands of bogus students remain free to enter Britain despite new laws to tighten controls on immigration.It was a bogus company, it was a bogus investment.Thousands of bogus students remain free to enter Britain despite controls aimed at tightening immigration.Watch out for emails asking you to fill in your personal details, or bogus websites.He called for honesty, adding that bogus claims may still get asylum with their own nationalities.COPS are hunting a bogus policeman who uses a car fitted with flashing blue lights to pull over speeding motorists.It is one part of the same populist anger that is commonly expressed about criminals, welfare fraudsters and bogus asylum seekers.The bogus film was used as a cover to smuggle the Americans out of Iran.But then'human rights lawyers had a go' and the law on bogus marriages was deemed illegal.We need to stop bogus marriages, crack down on colleges and make sure that the English language checks we carry out abroad are done properly. British English: bogus ADJECTIVE If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine. ...their bogus insurance claim. - American English: bogus
- Brazilian Portuguese: falso
- Chinese: 伪造的
- European Spanish: falso
- French: bidon
- German: falsch
- Italian: falso
- Japanese: 偽の
- Korean: 가짜의
- European Portuguese: falso
- Latin American Spanish: falso
Chinese translation of 'bogus' adj - [claim, evidence etc]
伪(偽)造的 (wěizào de)
Definition not genuine bogus insurance claims Synonyms pseudo (informal) phoney or phony (informal) Opposites real , true , actual , genuine , authentic , dinkum (Australian, New Zealand, informal) Additional synonymsDefinition made in imitation of a natural product The sauce was glutinous and tasted artificial. Synonyms fake, mock, imitation, bogus, simulated, phoney or phony (informal), sham, pseudo (informal), fabricated, counterfeit, spurious, ersatz, speciousThe articles were published under an assumed name. Synonyms false, affected, made-up, pretended, fake, imitation, bogus, simulated, sham, counterfeit, feigned, spurious, fictitious, make-believe, pseudonymous, phoney or phony (informal) Definition pretended He admitted possessing and delivering counterfeit currency. Synonyms fake, copied, false, forged, imitation, bogus, simulated, sham, fraudulent, feigned, spurious, ersatz, phoney or phony (informal), pseud or pseudo (informal) - bogged down
- boggle
- boggy
- bogus
- bohemian
- boil
- boil down to something
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